Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs

Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs

(External)

Academic Personnel Services
Job #543111
Close Date: Sunday, November 3, 2024

 

At Cal Poly Humboldt, bold hearts and open minds shape the future.

Founded in 1913, Cal Poly Humboldt began as a small college for teachers. Today Humboldt has grown into a comprehensive university with rigorous science and liberal arts programs. Designated a polytechnic in 2022, Cal Poly Humboldt provides hands-on, impactful educational opportunities that lead to meaningful, measurable outcomes for the individual, for the state, and the world.

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Cal Poly Humboldt is a Hispanic-Serving Institution that strives to foster an inclusive and equitable community to support our students of diverse backgrounds. We are committed to achieving the goals of equal opportunity and endeavors to employ faculty and staff of the highest quality committed to working in a multicultural and multiracial community that reflects the diversity of the state.

Finding a better future is a task for the bold and open, the down-to-earth and visionary. Cal Poly Humboldt strives to cultivate these qualities in leaders, innovators, and scholars in every field.

 

(Job #543111) Administrator IV, Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, Salary Range: $9,625 - $30,896 monthly. Hiring Range: $10,588 - $14,701 monthly. Appointments are typically made at the beginning of the salary range. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a full-time, benefited, exempt, 12-month pay plan permanent position in Academic Personnel Services. This position is an Administrator IV in the California State University Management Personnel Plan (MPP). Under this plan, incumbents are subject to normal management reviews and serve at the pleasure of the University President. Additional information can be found at: http://www.calstate.edu/HRAdm/policies/mpp.shtml. This position comes with a premium benefits package that includes outstanding vacation, medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, voluntary pre-tax health and dependent care reimbursement accounts, a fee waiver education program, membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), and 14 paid holidays per year. Additional benefits information can be found at https://hraps.humboldt.edu/employee-benefits.

 

Position Summary:

Reporting directly to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Associate Vice President (AVP) for Faculty Affairs is responsible for all academic personnel functions. The AVP serves as a member of the Provost's administrative team to provide leadership for initiatives within the division of Academic Affairs, with a full understanding of the mission of the university and the role of Faculty Affairs within that mission.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all academic personnel matters and for building relationships with and among the faculty and campus community.
• Implements, interprets, and ensures compliance with, the Unit 3 (CFA) and Unit 11 (UAW) Collective Bargaining Agreements.
• Provides oversight responsibility for all personnel processes related to academic employees (instructional faculty, librarians, coaches, academic related counselors, and academic-administrators). In addition, oversees personnel processes of Unit 11 employees (teaching associates, graduate assistants, and instructional student assistants).
• Oversees personnel processes and procedures for faculty unit employees, including, but not limited to: appointment, paid and unpaid leaves (sabbatical, difference-in-pay, professional and personal leaves, sick leave and parental leaves), outside employment, and faculty retirement programs. Reviews recommendations on personnel actions for approval by the Provost.
• Provides expert advice on contract and faculty personnel matters to the President, the Provost, deans, associate deans, and department chairs.
• Conducts, plans, and/or supervises training rel